Introduction to Epidemiology (Nursing)
Über den Vortrag
Der Vortrag „Introduction to Epidemiology (Nursing)“ von Heide Cygan, DNP, RN ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Year 2, Semester 1 (Philippines Nursing Curriculum)“.
Quiz zum Vortrag
Which definition best describes epidemiology?
- The study of the incidence and distribution of health-related events in specific populations
- The study of changes in structure and behavior in specific populations
- The study of how a specific disease affects the general population
- The study of how different populations come into contact with different populations
The public health nurse learns that in a school of 1500 students, 20 were diagnosed with the flu this month, in addition to the 10 students that have already recovered after being diagnosed the month before. How can the public health nurse calculate the incidence of flu for this student population?
- Divide 20 by 1500
- Multiply 20 by 1500
- Subtract 20+10 from 1500
- Add 20 and 10 together and divide by 1500
In the last year, 5 residents in the nursing home have been diagnosed with diabetes. 25 additional residents have diabetes, having been diagnosed previously. The nursing home has 100 residents in total. What is the prevalence of diabetes in this nursing home?
- 0.3
- 0.25
- 0.005
- 0.05
The nurse manager asks the newly graduated nurse what the morbidity rate of congestive heart failure (CHF) is. The new graduate nurse knows that the nurse manager is asking for what information?
- The rate of people who are diagnosed with CHF
- The number of people diagnosed with CHF in the last year
- The rate of people who have died from CHF
- The number of people who have died from CHF compared to the total population
Which measurement is used to combine morbidity and mortality into one single metric?
- Disability-adjusted life year (DALY)
- Incidence
- Prevalence
- Morbidity-mortality ratio
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Dozent des Vortrages Introduction to Epidemiology (Nursing)
Heide Cygan, DNP, RN
Dr. Heide Cygan is an Associate Professor at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago, where she is also the co-program director of the Advanced Public Health Nursing and Transformative Leadership: Population Health DNP programs. Dr. Cygan is board certified Advanced Public Health Nurse.
Dr. Cygan received her BSN from the University of Michigan and her DNP from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
For her professional achievements, she earned the Education MVP award from Rush University in 2019 and was named one of the 40 under 40 Emerging Nurse Leaders by Illinois Nurses Foundation in 2018. Dr. Cygan believes that all nurses have a commitment to understand the impact they have on the health of the public, and strives to energize students to examine patient outcomes through a population health lens.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Cygan will teach a course on Public Health Nursing.
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